Adaptation

ANCHORAGE – Responding to a major new government science report on global climate change released at the White House yesterday, The Wilderness Society’s Alaska Regional Office said that the report affirms the need for urgent action and the importance of protecting critical wildlife habitat and undisturbed natural areas.

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We applaud Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) of the House Natural Resources Committee for introducing legislation (H.R. 2192 ) to provide a clear federal policy in favor of protecting our natural resources. This legislation will help prioritize public lands and the critical services they provide to human communities in the face of global warming's adverse impacts. Many of these impacts are already being felt around the nation. In the Rocky Mountain West, snowpack and summer runoff has already decreased and in the Southeast droughts are on the rise.

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The classic literature book Love in the Time of Cholera is supposed to be a period piece set more than a century ago - so while love and romance is very much alive in the 21st century, the other part of the title - cholera - is not supposed to be. Unfortunately, it looks like the water-borne disesase could make a comeback, thanks to heavier rainfalls associated with climate change.

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In all the hubbub about the federal budget, an important Obama Administration initiative slipped under most folks’ radar last week. In fact, just the other day a friend asked me “So what has Obama actually done for the environment lately?” My answer: “Check out America’s Great Outdoors.”

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Last week the President unveiled his “Strategy for American Innovation ” which details his approach to jumpstarting the American economy by investing in important areas such as clean energy, health care technology, and education. This week he hits to road in an effort to get folks excited about modernizing our infrastructure. As a climate champ, this all sounds great to me.

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If you agree that climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution, then the recent agreement achieved in Cancun, Mexico is reason for hope – and succeeded in a few areas where the much more lauded conference in Copenhagen last year failed.

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I recently took a trip to Alaska, to learn about how climate change is affecting the people that live on the front lines of a warming world. The following was originally posted on the website Care2.com. In a small restaurant a stone’s throw from the Arctic Ocean last week I heard a familiar argument against investing in climate adaptation: focusing on adaptation takes attention away from the critical work of reducing dangerous carbon pollution.